Joel Embiid wanted to win the MVP award, but he didn’t live up to it.
Joel Embiid “stole” the award for the most valuable player of the season in the NBA (MVP) from Nikola Jokic after two years, and even though the public is complaining that he deserves it – the matches in the playoffs proved that it is still not the level of the Serbian center. To be an MVP, you also have to find a way to handle the pressure, and it seems Embid couldn’t do that – as the spotlight completely blinded him after receiving the accolade.
Not only did he miss out on the Eastern finals again, but his Philadelphia lost a 3:2 advantage that they could have “verified” at home. Instead, they lost in the Masters after a debacle in which Embiid was the worst actor, and despite shooting 28 percent from the field – he blamed his teammates for the failure.
This is the first thesis that confirms that with such thinking and treatment of teammates, Joel Embiid cannot be MVP, while the second one is perhaps even more valid. ESPN published the information that makes even the center of Philadelphia “red”. since it has never happened in the history of the NBA that the numbers of the officially most useful basketball player drop so much during the transition from the regular season to the playoffs, where much more serious basketball is played.
Source: ProfimediaJoel Embiid is a regular part of the season, in which Jokić was accused of “faking statistics”, averaged 33.1 points per match and was officially the best scorer of the competition. However, when the playoffs began, his scoring average dropped to 23.7. Such a thing has never happened to the official MVP.
The drop by 9.4 points is the largest in the history of the NBA and clearly indicates that something is wrong with the rules, that is, it might be best to wait until the playoffs are over – or until the finals itself – to declare the MVP of the season .
On the other hand, it is interesting to look at the averages of Nikola Jokić. In the season when he won his first MVP title – Jokić scored average 26.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists, while in the playoffs of the same season it is “womb” has 29.8 poena, 11.6 rebounds and five assists. Last season, Nikola Jokić finished the regular season with an average of 27.1 points, 13.8 rebounds and 7.9 assists. to be more effective again in the playoffsalbeit on a small sample of five matches – 31 points, 13.2 rebounds and 5.8 assists.
If we look at this season as well, when Jokić averaged 24.5 points, 11.8 rebounds and 9.8 assists during the regular season, then we look at the fact that he now has an average of six points more – it is clear who is the MVP. Jokić’s statistics in the playoffs are 30.7 points, 12.8 rebounds and 9.7 assists.
Joel Embiid averaged 33.1 PPG in the regular season and 23.7 PPG in the playoffs.
That drop-off (-9.4) is the largest by that year’s MVP in NBA history.pic.twitter.com/beu4XrfqNg
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo)May 15, 2023
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